An opportunity to explore your digitalisation strategy or security culture – hearing fresh perspectives in a safe, friendly and constructive environment.
The Cyber 360, designed for and with councils and managed and faciliated by the LGA, supports improvements in key areas against established good practice.
A team of council officers and external experts will spend two or three days with your council. They will offer advice and support throughout.
A cyber 360 can take place virtually or in-person, which can be spread flexibly over a two week period.
The team will have various conversations with senior leaders, heads of service, cyber and IT professionals throughout.
The team will work together with the LGA to develop a reflective report with recommendations for how you can improve your cyber culture.
Approach
A Cyber 360 is all about advice. It should not be seen as a form of compliance, accreditation, health check, or another directive or assurance-based model.
The team will build cyber capabilities by coaching and signposting to advice and guidance. We also seek to help you better understand what good looks like without dictating specific outcomes or actions to be taken.
At the heart of a Cyber 360 is improving cyber security culture. We will prioritise ways you can improve leadership, governance, awareness and training. We will also look at the ways your technology is impacting on culture.
The basis of all conversations will rest on the 360 Framework. This framework brings together existing advice from:
- National Cyber Security Centre
- Scottish Government
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- The Cabinet Office
- NHS Digital
- Centre for Internet Security
Testimonials
"We highly valued our Cyber 360, that considered a wide range of issues within the review scope. These extended beyond typical technical controls to the ‘softer’ but important issues of culture, leadership and governance. Gaining input from a range of organisations from across the sector added extra value.”
- Matt Prosser, Chief Executive, Dorset Council
"Since the Cyber 360 team spoke with the Council, there's been agreement to extend the cyber security training to Members."
- Jason Tillyard, Head of ICT & Transformation, Dartford Borough Council
Contact us
All councils are invited to apply to undertake a Cyber 360 – and council officers from any council can apply to be part of the team (even if their council is not applying for the programme itself).